Director: Bela Tarr | Agnes Hranitzky
Year: 2008
Country: France | Germany | Hungary
Language: English | French
Length: 133 mins
Format: PAL | R2
Colour: Black & White
Aspect Ratio: 1.66: 1
Certificate: 12
Alternate Title: A Londoni Ferfi

Synopsis

Maloin leads a simple life without prospects at the edge of the infinite sea; he barely notices the world around him, has already accepted the slow and inevitable deterioration of life around him and his all but complete loneliness. When he becomes a witness to a murder, his life takes a sudden turn. He comes face to face with issues of morality, sin, punishment, the line between innocence and complicity in a crime, and this state of scepsis leads him to the ontological question of the meaning and worth of existence.

The film is about desire, man's indestructible longing for a life of freedom and happiness, about illusions never to be realised – about things that give all of us energy to continue living, to go to sleep and get up day after day… Maloin's story is ours – all of those who doubt and are able to question our humdrum existence.